Oh yes, this wheel has been invented, in the last client version. You have a
command to specify a number of days to keep.

Regards,

R. Lambelet, Nestle, Switzerland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Talafous, John G. [SMTP:Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 4:05 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Expiration of objects with TDP for MSExchange
>
> By design, TDP for Exchange does not expire backup objects. Instead, the
> Exchange admin must sit down and manually expire what is no longer needed.
> The TDP object contains the date and time of the backup in the filename.
> With 10+ exchange servers and growing this can become a time consuming
> task.
> I then begin to think that there must be a way to delete old objects
> programmatically. Has anyone already invented this wheel? Is this a
> requirement already on the table with Tivoli?
>
> Environment is AIX 4.3, TSM 3.7 and TDP for Exchange 1.1.
>
> TIA
> John G. Talafous                         Sr. Tech. Prog/Anal
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